State Department Starts Tagging Employees With Gender Pronouns

The U.S. State Department has begun tagging employees with gender identity pronouns in their emails, according to multiple media reports, with some of the men being referred to by female pronouns and vice versa.
Associated Press reporter Matt Lee asked State Department deputy spokesman Vedant Patel during a Thursday briefing if the department’s internal email system had begun adding gender pronouns to employees’ emails and inquired why this was being done. “This is not an optional thing. This is something that has been just arbitrarily imposed,” Lee said. “This is not something that anybody has a choice about. And so I’m wondering why and who made this decision.”…}